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Welcome to the Monticello High School Media Center

Welcome to the Monticello High School Media Center. SLMS: Duane Hawkinson. Goals. Media Center Layout Correct Procedures Information Search Reading Resources. Layout Test your powers of observation. Media Center Office Security System Current Magazines Color Laser Printer

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Welcome to the Monticello High School Media Center

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  1. Welcome to the Monticello High School Media Center SLMS: Duane Hawkinson

  2. Goals Media Center Layout Correct Procedures Information Search Reading Resources

  3. LayoutTest your powers of observation. • Media Center Office • Security System • Current Magazines • Color Laser Printer • Encyclopedias • Fiction

  4. Layout, continued • Paperback Fiction • Book Return • Map Stand • Networked Computers • Reference Books • Nonfiction • Check-out

  5. Procedures Checking out and returning books • What’s needed to check out books? • What happens if books are overdue? • What if you walk out with a book without checking it out? • How do you use computers? • Logging in, saving on the network

  6. Login Screen

  7. Saving to the F-Drive Save on network or on floppy disk. Do NOT save on the computer’s hard drive. It will be lost.

  8. Use Spectrum to look up books: see cues on book shelves: Dewey Decimal System Use reference books for overview Use online databases for academicresources Use Web sites—but carefully. Find information

  9. Develop a Love for Reading Where are resources to help you find good stuff to read?Do you like to blog, exchange ideas about books? Do you like to read what other students have written about books? See my site.

  10. Questions for me?

  11. Don’t forget: Tell me what you like to read. Fill out my survey: Teen MagazineSurvey

  12. End of Orientation Don’t expect to know everything. I’m here to help. Stop by before or after school if you want help.

  13. Just one more thought: Broaden your horizons. Get a library card.

  14. Getting a Library Card

  15. Advantages of Using More thanOne Library • GRRL has over 800,000 items. • Monticello HS has 11,000 items. • With a library card, you can access databases from home. • Both are free! Take advantage of free resources.

  16. Have a great year! Remember: Read read “just for the fun of it.” October 14-20 is Teen Read Week. Don’t forget to celebrate it.

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